Average gamer uses 4GB. Also, AFAIK, there isn't any single game/benchmark that would utilize over 1.5GB of resources. I think it's fair to say you could game on 2GB but loading would be slow and you may have microstutter due to paging files. With upcoming games, 4GB would eb the way to go.

As far as your rig is concerned, more and more games are beccoming multithreaded. Your dual core would keep up nicely but a tri/quad and above would help tremendously.

This is all dependent on which games you play/will play/plan on playing.

The question I have for you is, what's the max res of your monitor, how much do you game, and what type of games do you play? Anything MMO?

Average gamer uses 4GB. Also, AFAIK, there isn't any single game/benchmark that would utilize over 1.5GB of resources. I think it's fair to say you could game on 2GB but loading would be slow and you may have microstutter due to paging files. With upcoming games, 4GB would eb the way to go.

As far as your rig is concerned, more and more games are beccoming multithreaded. Your dual core would keep up nicely but a tri/quad and above would help tremendously.

This is all dependent on which games you play/will play/plan on playing.

The question I have for you is, what's the max res of your monitor, how much do you game, and what type of games do you play? Anything MMO?

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I'm more into first person shooters. The max resolution I'll be playing at is 1920x1080.

I am using a 5750 right now (I got for a friend and am testing it out) It was $100 Openbox (even came with Dirt 2, lol)
and at 1920 X 1200 its pretty dam nice.

I also use a 9800GT (same as the 8800GT) and at lower resolutions its fine for todays games, so if you have a 22" or smaller LCD I wouldnt change anything..

The GPUs are going up $$, wait till they go back down to get any of them...

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I think I've settled on buying BFBC2 first, then seeing how well it runs on my 8800GT. If I can't stand it, I'll go ahead and upgrade and then from there, someday i'll upgrade to windows 7 and more ram.

I wasn't aware 5770 was DX11 (I guess that shows how out of it i've been) so I'm definitely considering this card as well. The only reason I want something DX11 is simply so I don't have to mess with it later when I upgrade to windows 7

i disagree my 8800gt i can handle any game up to 1920x1200, that's with no aa/af, with all graphic settings at high, gta iv i avg 65fps avg. crysis medium to high, bc2 all high, never had a game yet i could not run smoothly, he needs to upgrade cpu, to a high clock dual core, or a quad

I think I've settled on buying BFBC2 first, then seeing how well it runs on my 8800GT. If I can't stand it, I'll go ahead and upgrade and then from there, someday i'll upgrade to windows 7 and more ram.

I wasn't aware 5770 was DX11 (I guess that shows how out of it i've been) so I'm definitely considering this card as well. The only reason I want something DX11 is simply so I don't have to mess with it later when I upgrade to windows 7

Thanks everybody!

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with SLI disabled i get a solid 30FPS but you must disable HSAO to get decent performance at 1920X1080

i disagree my 8800gt i can handle any game up to 1920x1200, that's with no aa/af, with all graphic settings at high, gta iv i avg 65fps avg. crysis medium to high, bc2 all high, never had a game yet i could not run smoothly, he needs to upgrade cpu, to a high clock dual core, or a quad